For live TV, all the XBMC ServerWMC app does is remux the recorded file from WMC, so you're going to need to get WMC working first. Not sure why audio settings would give you a video error? Are you changing audio devices when you switch from 5.1 to stereo?

My question was, If I set my sound setting back to 5.1 and run live tv on XBMC will it still throw me the "video Error" message?

If you are getting the video error message in WMC that channel won't work in ServerWMC. Are you using WMC for cable or OTA? If cable which provider?

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Originally Posted by JDLIVE

For live TV, all the XBMC ServerWMC app does is remux the recorded file from WMC, so you're going to need to get WMC working first. Not sure why audio settings would give you a video error? Are you changing audio devices when you switch from 5.1 to stereo?

This is for the most part true, but there is a caveat

@BlvckBox
you can set audio back to whatever you want in WMC so long as it works. In your XBMC setup your windows audio settings don't matter as much depending on how you do things. If you go with the recommended bit-perfect passthrough option using WASAPI on your PCH as the passthrough device then your "Windows Sound Settings for HDMI" configuration (2.1, 5.1, 7.1) doesn't matter. Hence, you can leave it at 2.1 for WMC and XBMC will passthrough up to 7.1 with wasapi, but you do need to check the "allow exclusive control" text box under settings.

Though, WMC shouldn't have any problem selecting 5.1 either. Do you have a codec pack installed by chance? That tends to break WMC audio if not configured properly

Any one gotten XBMC/KODI to work with an anamorphic lens ? Everything I have read said that XBMC will not streach the image vertically to work properly with a anamorphic lens. I know media play classic with work. But I have been using XBMC for years now and would really like not to have to switch to something else when I switch to a CIH screen. Any one have a fix for this? Thanks

@BlvckBox
you can set audio back to whatever you want in WMC so long as it works. In your XBMC setup your windows audio settings don't matter as much depending on how you do things. If you go with the recommended bit-perfect passthrough option using WASAPI on your PCH as the passthrough device then your "Windows Sound Settings for HDMI" configuration (2.1, 5.1, 7.1) doesn't matter. Hence, you can leave it at 2.1 for WMC and XBMC will passthrough up to 7.1 with wasapi, but you do need to check the "allow exclusive control" text box under settings.

Though, WMC shouldn't have any problem selecting 5.1 either. Do you have a codec pack installed by chance? That tends to break WMC audio if not configured properly

I wasn't trying to link the two setups, just wondering if maybe he was switching from say, an analog audio connection for 2.1 to an HDMI connection for 5.1 that might cause some kind of HDCP error.

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Originally Posted by JamesVG81

Any one gotten XBMC/KODI to work with an anamorphic lens ? Everything I have read said that XBMC will not streach the image vertically to work properly with a anamorphic lens. I know media play classic with work. But I have been using XBMC for years now and would really like not to have to switch to something else when I switch to a CIH screen. Any one have a fix for this? Thanks

I'm still using MPC-HC as an external player. The Kodi internal player can do a vertical stretch, but the problem is it will override the content aspect ratio. So if you have a blu-ray rip, it's 1920x1080, since all blu-rays are that AR, the black bars are actually encoded as part of the picture. So when you tell Kodi to stretch it, you don't get the desired result since it think it's 1920x1080. There were people requesting a feature to allow this, but the devs basically said, "if you want to do that, then re-encode your videos properly to 1920x810". In other words, they don't understand CIH setups. That was prior to the Gotham release but I doubt it's changed. There was also some talk of a media flag to use as an over-ride, not sure if that ever went anywhere.

FYI, for any XBMC (now Kodi) users running the wmc.pvr back end with an HDHomerun Prime, there is now an option to directly stream to the Kodi client via DLNA. That means much faster channel changes and no temporary stream files being written. You do give up the option to record the stream on the fly, but that's a trade-off I can live with.

I too have the HDHR Prime, could you walk me through the steps to get Live TV on Kodi ( installed an Amazon Fire TV ) ? I currently use WMC to record, but I haven't yet installed WMC Server or the wmc.pvr add-on in Kodi if that matters. Thank you.

I too have the HDHR Prime, could you walk me through the steps to get Live TV on Kodi ( installed an Amazon Fire TV ) ? I currently use WMC to record, but I haven't yet installed WMC Server or the wmc.pvr add-on in Kodi if that matters. Thank you.

I am using Windows so I'm not sure if there are additional requirements for running it on a Fire, but here's a setup guide. It's got a lot more than just Live TV, but it's in there as well.

I too have the HDHR Prime, could you walk me through the steps to get Live TV on Kodi ( installed an Amazon Fire TV ) ? I currently use WMC to record, but I haven't yet installed WMC Server or the wmc.pvr add-on in Kodi if that matters. Thank you.

You have to install ServerWMC or some other backend to get PVR working in Kodi

Since the dual doesn't do dlna you can't use any of the cute little dlna workarounds people are trying either. There is also a much more manual setup where you add each available channel as an rtsp stream in your kodi library

@captain_video
runs unraid and was looking to use mythbuntu. He may be able to help. You may be able to set up a jail for your backend

Since the dual doesn't do dlna you can't use any of the cute little dlna workarounds people are trying either. There is also a much more manual setup where you add each available channel as an rtsp stream in your kodi library

@captain_video
runs unraid and was looking to use mythbuntu. He may be able to help. You may be able to set up a jail for your backend

I have UnRaid setup already. i have been trying for months to get my tuners setup with OpenElec/XBMC (now OpenElec/Kodi) with zero luck. I will try the links you supplied and contact Captain_video if I am unable to get it up and running. Thanks for the info.

I would be happy if i could just play my recorded tv shows in Kodi that were recorded in WMC.

On this new version of XBMC (Kodi?), I can't find the options where I input my receiver's capabilities. It used to by in "System >> Audio Output"....but now that menu is severely limited. I can't get my titles to play DTS-MA because it thinks everything is stereo.